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Wraithlike

Definition: Wraithlike

Wraithlike

Adjective

1. Lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike column of smoke".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Wraithlike

Synonym: shadowy (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Wraithlike

English words defined with "wraithlike": shadowy. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Wraithlike

"Wraithlike" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wraithlike" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Anagrams: Wraithlike

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-i-k-l-r-t-w"

-2 letters: hairlike, wartlike.

-3 letters: airlike, hatlike, lathier, ratlike, talkier, warlike, whitier, withier.

-4 letters: awhile, awhirl, hailer, halite, halter, hawker, hawkie, kilter, kiltie, kirtle, lakier, lather, lither, lithia, retail, retial, tailer, talker, talkie, thaler, thawer, wailer, waiter, walker, wealth, whaler, whiter, wilier, withal, wither, wraith, wreath, writhe.

-5 letters: airth, alert, alike, alter, ariel, artel, earth, haler.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Wraithlike


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 72 61 69 74 68 6C 69 6B 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01110010 01100001 01101001 01110100 01101000 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#114 &#97 &#105 &#116 &#104 &#108 &#105 &#107 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0072 0061 0069 0074 0068 006C 0069 006B 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

57846775867478757771

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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